Tenure

First elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2014. Member of the House since 2015.

Current Assignments

2019 Environment and Transportation Committee

2019 Chair, Land Use and Ethics Subcommittee of the Environment and Transportation Committee

2020 Motor Vehicle and Transportation Subcommittee of the Environment and Transportation Committee

2019 Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review

2021 House Chair, Joint Committee on Pensions (Member, 2015)

2015 Joint Committee on the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area

2015 Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness

2019 House Study Group to Study Economic Stability

2015 Women Legislators of Maryland

2015 Maryland Legislative Latino Caucus, Associate Member

Past House Service

Appropriations Committee, 2015-2019; Vice Chair, Transportation and the Environment Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee (Vice Chair, 2019), 2015-2019; Vice Chair, Oversight Committee on Pensions of the Appropriations Committee (Vice Chair, 2019), 2015-2019; Capital Budget Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, 2019; Workgroup on the Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act, 2017-2019.

Public Service

Objective Criteria Committee, State Retirement and Pension System, 2018-; Complete Streets Program Regulations Work Group, 2018-; Board Member, Port Discovery Children's Museum, 2018-; Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Advisory Council, 2018-; Board of Trustees, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2017-; Board Member, Advocates for Children & Youth, 2016-; AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer, 2002-2003.

Memberships

New DEAL Leader, 2016-; Fells Point Residents Association, 2011-2014; Citizens Planning and Housing Association Board, 2012-2014; Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance, Board, 2013-2015; The DREAM Program, Executive Committee Board Member, Alumni Association, 2009-2010; American Constitution Society, Maryland Lawyer, Co-Chair, 2011-2013.

Awards

Legislator of the Year, Maryland League of Conservation Voters, 2019-; Maryland's Top 100 Women, The Daily Record, 2019; Legislator of the Year, Hunger Solutions, 2017; Aspen-Rodel Fellowship in Public Leadership, 2017; Leading Woman, The Daily Record, 2014; Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine, 2013-2018; Forty Under Forty, Baltimore Magazine, 2013.

Biographical Information

Born, Washington, D.C., February 14, 1979; Walt Whitman High School, 1997; Dartmouth College, B.A., History, 2001; University of Texas School of Law, J.D. 2008; Law Clerk to Chief Judge Benson E. Legg and Chief Judge Deborah K. Chasanow, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland 2009-10; Associate in Government Relations, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, 2008-2009; Associate, Brown, Goldstein and Levy, LLP, Baltimore Maryland 2010 -; Married; two children.